"Newbies"

Humor

Themes & Topics

Glossary

Lecture Notes

Trivia & Factoids

Themes & Topics
Capital Budgeting

News Stories

Background Information

• Breakeven Analysis (The SOHO Guidebook)

• Capital Budgeting, the Cost of Capital, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) (Craig Lewis, Vanderbilt University)

• Tools

  • Comparison

  • Internal Rate of Return (IRR) (The SOHO Guidebook)

  • NPV (The SOHO Guidebook)

• How To Depreciate Property (IRS) -- requires Adobe Acrobat

• Process: How Customer Managers Budget Capital Expenditures

• SUNK COST AND MARGINAL COST: AN AUCTION EXPERIMENT (Michael J. Haupert, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin--La Crosse)

Bloopers & Blunders

• ROE, Buybacks, and Value

Finance By Example (Archives)

• Mutually Exclusive Projects: AOL Signs Internet Deals With Both Netscape And Microsoft’s Explorer

• Net Present Value (NPV)
  • Gillette to Buy Duracell for $7 Billion
  • IBM to Buyback $3.5 Billion Shares
  • Silicon Graphics to Acquire Cray Research in $739.2 Million Deal
  • Vanguard Cannibalizes Its Referral Business